This is something I've been meaning to announce for some time now but I keep forgetting.  We added a few new URLs you can download SMF from.  These are designed to only serve up the  latest releases so you can be sure you are getting the most recent version.

Install
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/index.php/latest/
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/index.php/latest/install/

Upgrade
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/index.php/latest/upgrade/

Update
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/index.php/latest/update/


I hope these will be of use to you.

Very nice and very useful. Thanks a lot.

Great, I'll announce it in my forum:)

Why not go the little bit further and remove index.php from the url too?

What and wreck the SMF style SEF urls

Quote from: eldʌkaː on July 31, 2007, 01:55:36 AM
Why not go the little bit further and remove index.php from the url too?

IMHO, http://www.simplemachines.org/download/latest.tar.gz would be the best URL

Thanks

Nice, but better way is to make a link to file.
Like WordPress have: hxxp:www.wordpress.org/latest.zip [nonactive]

very good!!

Thanks

Would SMF ever think of having multiple mirrors?

They do: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=223514.0

Oh I did not know that.

How would someone be able to help by being a mirror?




Cause I am willing to become a mirror for SMF and I don't have any real bandwidth limits. I have 500GB of bandwidth a month. I only use 2GB a month, so yeah I have lots left.

Contact the project managers
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/contact.php

Thanks SleePy I looked for that yesterday and couldn't find it, so thanks. I just contacted them about it.

Thanks for the help. Several forums we admin could use this info. I will pass it along.

Quote from: lordtron on February 28, 2008, 04:11:58 AM
Would SMF ever think of having multiple mirrors?

SMF already has mirrors   http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=223514.0

Yeah I saw that in a previous post. I emailed someone in SMF and I never got a reply. Cause I would be interested in providing my services in becoming a mirror for SMF.

Why don't have something similar to WordPress download? It is just the URI and a file called either latest.zip or latest.tar.gz.

http://simplemachines.org/latest.zip
http://simplemachines.org/latest.tar.gz

Birger

That would not be that good. Cause not everyone can run 1.1.4 or the latest version of SMF.

Quote from: MindTooth on March 04, 2008, 07:14:40 PM
Why don't have something similar to WordPress download? It is just the URI and a file called either latest.zip or latest.tar.gz.

http://simplemachines.org/latest.zip
http://simplemachines.org/latest.tar.gz

Birger

Because we don't want to copy others, we want to do things our own unique way

Besides, ours follows our format we use for when SEF urls are on.

Im sorry but you just lost me SleePy lol

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php/topic,183391.20.html
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/index.php/latest/install/

See a pattern?

Yes, a useless index.php. That's not SMF style URL, that's just a lame PHP thing.

Just wondering, but how is it a lame PHP thing?

Cause it has index.php in it when there are ways to get around that.

I think it is easier to just have http://www.simplemachines.org/latest.tar.gz.

Birger

I like some of these idea.  The latest filename thing isn't bad and should be doable.

Re: the /index.php/ thing

While I do agree it is fugly I'm not sure if removing it is the best thing.  The download page allows you to do http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php/filename.extension to get the file.  This is easy enough to handle because it will go through index.php regardless.  The apache trick basically does a "if the file doesn't exist and the directory doesn't exist rewrite the url" but that could cause problems if I have a file in same directory as index.php and is also a downloadable file.  I don't know for sure if that case is present now or is likely in the future, so I'd need to do some evaluating.

The alternative of course is to replace /index.php/ with something like /files/ but then is that really any different?